CARIBBEAN LITERATURES

Research in the field of Caribbean literatures has assumed large proportions over the past decades, which has resulted in a very substantial scientific output all over the world. This bibliography aims to offer a detailed and yet practical overview of the three main Caribbean literatures. It not only contains international publications (monographs, articles in journals and collections, and publications available in other formats such as doctoral dissertations), but also local publications, which function as barometers of literary topicality The chosen period (1954-2004) coincides with the development and diversification of the research.

The structure of the bibliography is as follows: the first chapter reviews general studies (including bibliographies) concerning the Caribbean as such. Chapters two to four are devoted to the three linguistic areas. Each of these chapters consists of two parts: the first part focuses on the general references that apply to that particular language; the second part takes the islands as criterion, and distinguishes for each island between general studies and studies on individual authors (including themes, oeuvre, etc.), ordered alphabetically and chronologically by critic. Some authors may be classified in another language area than the language they write in, for instance an author who writes in English but who was born in the Dominican Republic or Haiti.

In this case, the place of birth is decisive for the classification. When multiple languages, islands, literary authors or texts are discussed within a single publication, the latter will be mentioned in all of the categories provided. Whenever possible, the references are in accordance with the MLA Output Style.

No bibliography is ever complete and neither is this one, despite the use of a wide variety of source material (journals, books, catalogues, bibliographies etc.). However, more than any of these sources (which are included in the “General Studies”) this bibliography offers a comprehensive research instrument for three major Caribbean literatures and provides by means of a simple and open interface the opportunity to access and order detailed information on hundreds of authors and thousands of texts which were the object of scientific research during a period of fifty years.

We would like to thank the following institutions, which made this research and the publication of its results possible: the FWO-Vlaanderen (Research Foundation – Flanders), the Department of Literary Studies of the K.U.Leuven, and the library department, the IT department and the Faculty of Arts of the K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk.

Latin American and the Caribbean: a Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington.

New York, USA: Greenwood Press, 1992.

“Studies in Caribbean and South American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, 1990.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 15.1, The Literature of Guadeloupe and Martinique (1992): 199-313.

“Studies in Caribbean and South American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, 1991-1992.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 16.4, On “Post-Colonial Discourse”: A Special Issue (1993): 931-1033.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies. Ed. A. James Arnold.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997.

The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society. Essays on Literature and Culture. Ed. Helen PyneTimothy. Los Angeles: University of California; Center for African American Studies, 1998.

The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society. Critical Analyses of the Writings of Caribbean Women. Ed. Helen Pyne-Timothy. Los Angeles: University of California; Centre for African American Studies, 1998.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Volume 2: English- and Dutch-Speaking Regions. Ed. A.

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau and Timothy J. Reiss. “Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magical and Other Realisms in Caribbean Literature.” Annals of Scholarship: An International Quarterly in the Humanities and Social Sciences 12.1-2 (1997).

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